Quoting from Zundel, we may say that Dupuy in 1827 considered canker as a hypertrophy of the fibres of the hoof, admitting at the same time that these fibres were softened by an altered secretion; while Mercier in 1841 stated that canker was nothing more than a chronic inflammation of the reticular tissue of the foot, characterized by diseased secretions of this apparatus.
"Diseases of the Horse's Foot"
Harry Caulton Reeks
It was found that when the reticular framework of a nucleus prepares to divide, it separates into single segments.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
And drew her old hand, tremulously, over the mass of rich black hair which the almost nominal bonnet of that day left uncovered, with the reticular arrangement that confined it, and went on speaking, dreamily:-"It is very beautiful, but my lady's hair is golden, and shines like the sun."
"When Ghost Meets Ghost"
William Frend De Morgan